Smear tests are only for asymptomatic women. that’s the point of this BMJ column about cervical smears
Continue Reading →How the UK drug regulator became the herbalists’ marketeer
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Continue Reading →Who pays this doctor? It’s time patients knew.
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Continue Reading →#SaatchiBill – misguided and potentially dangerous
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Continue Reading →BMJ column; Research press releases need better policing.
free link to BMJ column Last year Carmel Turner and I went to the Selling Sickness conference to present our case for making press releases better. We suggested that guidelines would be useful – and as I explain in the BMJ column, linked to above, guidelines have helped in the reporting of RCTs via the […]
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Continue Reading →Inside Health 22/4/14
We’re talking about acute kidney injury (used to be known as acute renal failure) tonight on Radio 4 at 9pm. There has been a paper today resulting in headlines like ‘Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS’ ‘1,000 patients die each month from avoidable kidney problems” Today programme, at 1.22 Updated; full […]
Continue Reading →Saatchi Bill – not useful and potentially dangerous
This is the Saatchi Bill . This is the consultation document . Here’s where you can respond – until 25th April. Here’s my Response to Draft Legislation of Medical Innovation Bill. 1. I am GP in Glasgow. I also write and broadcast for the medical and lay press. I have a strong interest in evidence based medicine […]
Continue Reading →Inside Health, video calling your GP. 15/4/14
on video link consultations https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-to-benefit-from-improved-gp-care Same-day hubs are a ‘national imperative’, claims under fire ICB Click to access JPHCOSPMorganJune2013.pdf http://jtt.sagepub.com/content/16/8/417.full.pdf+html?hwoaspck=true http://www.pifonline.org.uk/web-based-consultations-for-diabetes-using-skype-shows-early-promise/ http://www.afao.org.au/library/hiv-australia/volume-10/vol.-10-number-2/telehealth-in-general-practice-providing-alternative-access-options#.U0zyLvldU40 http://bma.org.uk/news-views-analysis/news/2013/august/talking-telehealth-crossroads-for-consultations Click to access 2012telehealth_skype.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21735417 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imj.12323/full http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23782753 On telehealth Links via http://margaretmccartney.com/2012/11/15/links-about-telehealth/ On health apps http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1811?ijkey=Z0smOczk2xpb6Iz&keytype=ref
Continue Reading →Better ‘as one’? Oh no we’re not
Free link to BMJ column about this company who believe this is how the NHS works. It doesn’t. TREATMENT WITHOUT AS.ONE. TREATMENT WITH AS.ONE. Week1 CALL YOUR GP SURGERY TO GET AN APPOINTMENT. CALL OUR CONSULTANT TRIAGE TEAM. GET IN FRONT OF A SPECIALIST. Week2 MEET YOUR GP TO DISCUSS YOUR SYMPTOMS. DIAGNOSIS AND […]
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